Mighty Monarch of The Air

[miniman82]

My money is still on a shorted doorknob, if the filament winding on the flyback were arcing you'd likely see that as well as the intense glow from the rectifier. I say it's time to sub in a doorknob cap.

[Phil Nelson]

I thought he had the same problem when the doorknob cap was disconnected.

Phil Nelson

[vts1134]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

I thought he had the same problem when the doorknob cap was disconnected.

Phil Nelson

It did.

[vts1134]

Originally Posted by miniman82

My money is still on a shorted doorknob, if the filament winding on the flyback were arcing you'd likely see that as well as the intense glow from the rectifier. I say it's time to sub in a doorknob cap.

Shorted to ground? It doesn't read shorted. I don't have a capacitor tester so I can only test if it's shorted.

[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by vts1134

Shorted to ground? It doesn't read shorted. I don't have a capacitor tester so I can only test if it's shorted.

You're using the highest ohms scale, and it's reading open circuit, right?

R95 is actually reading around 3.6 ohms which is right at 20%. Possibly this should be changed but could that little fluctuation in tolerance possibly be the entire cause of the problem?

No, not a chance.

[vts1134]

Originally Posted by old_coot88

You're using the highest ohms scale, and it's reading open circuit, right? Now how about from the 1X2 filament loop to ground?

All connections on the 1X2 socket read open to ground.